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Yahoo redesign aims to make site more inviting
Yahoo is renovating the main entry into its website in an effort to get people to visit more frequently and stay longer. The long-awaited makeover of ...
NYC news anchor resigns after wife-choking arrest
An embattled New York City television news anchor resigned Wednesday, three days after he was charged with choking and threatening his wife at their ...
Robin Roberts returns to 'Good Morning America'
Robin Roberts made her return to ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday, five months to the day after receiving a bone marrow transplant and a year ...
Police: Shot reported at Pa. campus was newspaper
Police in Pennsylvania say a student's report of a gunshot being fired was instead the sound of a newspaper hitting the sidewalk. Gettysburg police ...
Somalia: $50,000 for info on journalists' killers
The Somali government is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the convictions of those killing journalists, the country's prime ...
BBC journalists go on strike over job cuts
BBC journalists walked off the job Monday in a 24-hour strike to protest job cuts at the broadcaster. Staff mounted picket lines outside of the BBC's ...
Irish firm sells S. African newspapers for $227M
An Irish media company has sold off its newspaper group in South Africa, including The Star and newspapers in Cape Town, to a local investment group ...
Tiger Woods joins vacationing Obama for golf round
President Barack Obama teed it up with Tiger Woods on Sunday. The White House confirmed that the President and the world's most famous golfer played ...
Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney story
The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks that 47 percent of Americans ...
Future races canceled in wake of Pistorius charge
Oscar Pistorius' agent has canceled all future track races so the double-amputee Olympian can focus on the murder charge against him, underscoring the ...
Agent cancels all future races for Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius' track career was put on hold indefinitely Sunday because of his murder charge, reinforcing the possibility that the double-amputee ...
White House calls draft immigration plan a backup
Republicans and Democrats alike on Sunday predicted President Barack Obama would fail if he pushed forward with his own effort to overhaul the ...
CPJ asks Congo to release imprisoned journalist
A leading media advocacy group is calling on Congolese authorities to release a journalist who was sentenced in December to six months in prison on ...
RI records show inner workings of Legion of Christ
Documents released Friday shed light on the inner workings of a secretive and now-disgraced Roman Catholic order called the Legion of Christ, ...
Herman Cain joins Fox News Channel as contributor
Former presidential candidate Herman Cain will be getting some regular TV work at Fox News Channel. The network announced Friday that Cain, a failed ...
Swedish photographer wins World Press Photo award
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen won the 2012 World Press Photo award Friday for newspaper Dagens Nyheter with a picture of two Palestinian children ...
Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ...
Israeli spy saga raises press freedom questions
Foreign reports about the mysterious death of an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent in an Israeli prison two years ago have sparked a rare backlash ...
Gag orders silence Israeli press in digital age
Israel's military censor, which has long served as the country's guardian of state secrets, is suddenly under the microscope following a pair of ...
California drama cuts into speech coverage
The California standoff involving fugitive Christopher Dorner shortened television's previews of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday ...
Somalia : Journalist freed but may face charges
A Somali journalist was freed after being detained without charges for more than a week for speaking out against the imprisonment of a fellow reporter
NBC stumbles in deep midwinter freeze, ratings low
NBC, after being heartened by some long-sought success this past fall, has fallen into a deep midwinter freeze. The network has badly stumbled ...
2 Nigeria journalists charged after polio killings
Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women ...
Correction: Cuba-Television story
In a story Feb. 10 about the network Telesur in Cuba, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A corrected ...
Group: Somali journalist detained without trial
A Somali journalist is being detained without charge in Somalia for speaking out against the imprisonment of a fellow reporter, said an international ...